what was the cold war?

Question

if in one sentence you can summarize what the cold war was or what it represented, what would it be?

Answer 1

It was called the Cold War mostly because it was a war of words, with the two major parties (US and USSR) never actually exchanging blows, but fighting proxies (Cuba, Korea).

Answer 2

After world war 2 the united states and Russia conflicted as the two largest world super-powers. The cold war was a competition to prove who was the mightiest post ww2 nation. The arms race, the space race, and the spread of communism and democracy were among some of the playing fields these nations utilized.

To make a long story short these two nations were so caught up in competing they almost entered conventional and nuclear war where there would have been large scale casualties due to their insecurities.

-A high stakes pissing contest.-

Answer 3

The Cold War was the protracted geopolitical, ideological, and economic struggle that emerged after World War II between a worldwide military alliance of capitalist states led by the United States and a rival alliance of communist states led by the Soviet Union.

Answer 4

Most of the answers above but it was a war where no war actually started. Everyone was afraid that the other person had nuclear bombs that no one wanted to start anything because they figured the would die too once the other person set off their bomb. People were just waiting for the other person to do something first.

Answer 5

The cold war was simply the super power countries (Russia and USA) turning a cold shoulder to each other (while scurrying to outdo each other in sending a man to the moon, manufacturing weapons, etc.)

Answer 6

The longest war the U.S. has faught, A war based on what government is better the U.S. government Democracy or Communism.

Answer 7

The penguins in antartica united for the cause of world domination, the war was to fend of the penguin hordes.

Answer 8

It was a time when communication between the superpowers was muted, and powerplays throughout the world's geopolical theatres dominated.

Answer 9

the above answer (joey d) was found here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_War